Graduate Minor in Healthcare Informatics

About the Minor

This graduate minor provides a basic acquaintance with health informatics principles and practices for students pursuing careers in a wide variety of health related professions. Healthcare informatics is defined here as the ability to generate data, information, and knowledge as well as to implement, adapt, and validate existing informatics approaches to solve healthcare problems. Healthcare informatics also concerns the management and sharing of healthcare data, the social and behavioral issues in healthcare, and the ethics, law, and socio-economic policy. Health informaticians also lead staff education and joint problem solving to promote implementation of healthcare information systems in practice and research settings.

Admission Requirements

Only for currently admitted and enrolled Drexel students in good standing. Students in Health Informatics Masters (MSHI) program are not eligible.

Writing-intensive Requirements

In order to graduate, all students must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year. Two writing-intensive courses must be in a student's major. The third can be in any discipline. Students are advised to take one writing-intensive class each year, beginning with the sophomore year, and to avoid “clustering” these courses near the end of their matriculation. Transfer students need to meet with an academic advisor to review the number of writing-intensive courses required to graduate.

For additional information, and an up-to-date list of the writing-intensive courses being offered, students should check the Drexel University Writing Center page